Adrian, MI – The State House has approved a bipartisan plan spearheaded by state Representative Bronna Kahle to provide more accountability and greater transparency of Michigan’s Certificate of Need Commission.
Certificate of Need programs were mandated by the federal government in the 1970s in an effort to control health care costs, but the mandate was quickly removed in the 1980s when the effort began having the opposite effect and actually drove up costs in many areas of the country.
Since then, the federal government has encouraged states to do away with their CON laws…but Michigan has one of the most extensive ones in the nation.
Kahle’s measure, House Bill 5074, is part of a four-bill bipartisan package addressing four main areas: meeting transparency, department transparency, joint committee transparency and proposed rule transparency.
The plan now moves to be considered by the state Senate.
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